North Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Nottinghamshire, formally the "Northern Division of Nottinghamshire" was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the block vote system of election.

North Nottinghamshire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Form 1832-1885. Extract from 1837 result: the central, blue area.
County	Nottinghamshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Nottinghamshire
Replaced by	Bassetlaw Mansfield Rushcliffe

Boundaries

1832–1885: The Hundreds of Bassetlaw and Broxtowe.^[1]

History

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Nottinghamshire constituency was replaced by the Northern and Southern divisions, each of which elected two MPs.

Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bassetlaw, Mansfield, Newark and Rushcliffe.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Viscount Lumley	Whig[2]		Thomas Houldsworth	Tory[2]
1834						Conservative[2]
1835		Henry Gally Knight	Conservative[2]
1846 by-election		Lord Henry Bentinck	Conservative
1852					Lord Robert Pelham-Clinton	Peelite[3][4][5]
1857		Sir Evelyn Denison	Whig[6][7][8][9]
1859			Liberal			Liberal
1865					Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton	Liberal
1868					Frederick Chatfield Smith	Conservative
1872 by-election		Hon. George Monckton-Arundell[10]	Conservative
1880					Cecil Foljambe	Liberal
1885	Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	John Lumley-Savile	1,680	39.8
	Tory	Thomas Houldsworth	1,372	32.5
	Whig	John Gilbert Cooper-Gardiner[12]	1,171	27.7
Turnout			2,548	88.2
Registered electors			2,889
Majority			308	7.3
	Whig win (new seat)
Majority			201	4.8
	Tory win (new seat)

General election 1835: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	John Lumley-Savile	Unopposed
	Conservative	Thomas Houldsworth	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,379
	Whig hold
	Conservative hold

Lumley-Savile succeeded to the peerage, becoming 8th Earl of Scarbrough and causing a by-election.

By-election, 31 March 1835: North Nottinghamshire^[11][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Henry Gally Knight	Unopposed
	Conservative gain from Whig

General election 1837: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Thomas Houldsworth	1,698	35.8
	Conservative	Henry Gally Knight	1,572	33.1
	Whig	George Saville Foljambe	1,478	31.1
Majority			94	2.0
Turnout			2,913	85.4
Registered electors			3,410
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Whig

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Gally Knight	Unopposed
	Conservative	Thomas Houldsworth	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,721
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Knight's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 6 March 1846: North Nottinghamshire^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Scott-Bentinck	1,742	88.9	N/A
	Conservative	Henry Pelham-Clinton	217	11.1	N/A
Majority			1,525	77.8	N/A
Turnout			1,959	53.7	N/A
Registered electors			3,650
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1847: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Scott-Bentinck	Unopposed
	Conservative	Thomas Houldsworth	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,910
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Scott-Bentinck	Unopposed
	Peelite	Robert Pelham-Clinton	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,996
	Conservative hold
	Peelite gain from Conservative

General election 1857: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Evelyn Denison	Unopposed
	Peelite	Robert Pelham-Clinton	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,028
	Whig gain from Conservative
	Peelite hold

General election 1859: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Speaker	Evelyn Denison	Unopposed
	Liberal	Robert Pelham-Clinton	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,062
	Speaker hold
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Speaker	Evelyn Denison	Unopposed
	Liberal	Edward Pelham-Clinton	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,065
	Speaker hold
	Liberal hold

General election 1868: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Speaker	Evelyn Denison	Unopposed
	Conservative	Frederick Chatfield Smith	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,205
	Speaker hold
	Conservative gain from Liberal

Elections in the 1870s

Denison was elevated to the peerage, becoming Viscount Ossington.

By-election, 26 Feb 1872: North Nottinghamshire (1 seat)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Monckton-Arundell	2,580	62.9	N/A
	Liberal	Robert Laycock	1,524	37.1	New
Majority			1,056	25.8	N/A
Turnout			4,104	75.3	N/A
Registered electors			5,448
	Conservative gain from Liberal

General election 1874: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Monckton-Arundell	Unopposed
	Conservative	Frederick Chatfield Smith	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,297
	Conservative gain from Liberal
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cecil Foljambe	2,814	25.7	New
	Conservative	George Monckton-Arundell	2,745	25.1	N/A
	Liberal	Henry Fox Bristowe[13]	2,735	25.0	New
	Conservative	William Evelyn Denison	2,646	24.2	N/A
Turnout			5,470 (est)	81.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			6,699
Majority			168	1.5	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
Majority			10	0.1	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing